Naval Wargaming from Ancient Galleys to Modern U-boats

First edition, first printing.  126pp with monochrome illustrations and charts, maps etc in text.  Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth gently rubbed at spine ends, upper text block edge a little dust darkened.  Previous owner’s name inked on the front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original dust wrapper, gently bumped on extreme edges.

This copy from the library of the late George R P Gush. Gush was head of history at West Kent College but is perhaps better remembered as a key contributor to the development of early wargaming, and as an active wargamer especially in Renaissance wargames. His Renaissance Armies (1975) has become a classic work on the topic. He founded the Tunbridge Wells Wargames Society in the late 1960s, remaining its chairman until 2007. A regular contributor to various wargaming and modelling magazines, he authored with Andrew Finch A Guide to Wargaming (1980) and the well-regarded Wargames Rules for Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries.